Literary Analysis and Cultural Studies

In this paper, we aim to reveal the similarities between "the structures in nature" and "man-made structures". These similarities can be observed from the very beginning of mankind, in many engineering and architectural designs. It can easily be seen that even though the scales, functions and processes encountered in…

In the era of 'Post-truth Politics,' political and activist statements related to different regions on Earth started to appear on the big digital screens of Times Square, New York City. In this paper, we investigate this phenomenon and focus on the role of the screen content (semantics) and the screen material propert…

Abstract The purpose of this study is to consider Superman’s acts against impulse–momentum and conservation of momentum principles. Superheroes as fantasy fiction characters attract the attention of not only children and teenagers but also adults. Superheroes can be useful in explaining a phenomenon, as well as overco…

• HASAN ŞAHİN KIZILCIK

Kırgız asıllı Cengiz Törekuloviç Aytmatov hikâye, roman ve tiyatro türünde yazdığı eserlerle hem Kırgız-Rus edebiyatında hem de Türk dünyası edebiyatında önemli bir yere sahiptir. Millî unsurlardan beslenerek evrensel bir düşünce biçimini ortaya koyan yazar bu düşünce biçimini birçok romanına yansıtmış olduğu gibi çal…

• MUSTAFA KARABULUT

An ability to see things from a new perspective, crossing borders of ignorance and artificial conventions, giving shape and forms to inappropriate things, becoming familiar with the persisting problems dominating the modern world, and finally understanding the meaning of life, requires particular attention to art, in…

Ecocriticism has gained visibility in Turkish academia in the early 2000s. This essay offers a brief analysis of the status of the field in Turkey and sheds light on the growing interest in ecology in both academic and non-academic circles. I first overview the academic conventions and publications that provided the i…

• MELİZ ERGİN BİLGİN

Gabriel Urbain Faure, a composer of late Romanticism linked with modernism, is one of the leading French melodie composers of his genre. Melodie can be described as a French art song, similar to German lied. Harmonic progressions, chromatic shifts and sudden modulations are often seen in Faure’s music, also giving hig…

• CANAN ÖZGÜR

Abstract In the 20th century and especially in the 21st century, the theory and the concepts such as simulation', ‘manipulation', ‘illusion', 'secret' and 'reality' have been interpreted differently from old times in several disciplines especially in visual arts. Some misleading techniques within various methods and a…

• MUSTAFA KOCALAN
• TANSEL TÜRKDOĞAN

Although there are very many different types of definitions for "literature," it is widely accepted that throughout history, the term has been used to refer to creative works of poetry and prose that are differentiated from one another by the intents of their creators and the acknowledged superiority of their aestheti…

• GÜVEN MENGÜ

Bu çalışmada, Keikichi Ōsaka’nın Kan no Yobare (Soğuk Gecenin Aydınlığı) adlı öyküsü, Greimas’ın göstergebilimsel anlatı kuramı çerçevesinde ele alınarak gotik unsurlar bağlamında incelenmiştir. Nitel bir araştırma olan bu çalışmada veriler doküman analiziyle toplanmıştır. Analiz iki aşamada gerçekleştirilmiştir. İlk…

• ZEYNEP GENÇER BALOĞLU

الملخص : إنَّ موسيقى الشِّعرِ عُنصرٌ جوهريٌّ في تشکيلِ النَّصِّ، فهو يُکمِلُ بقيَّةَ العناصر، ويُؤَازِرُها في الوقت نفسه، ومن ثَمَّ کان ذا وشائج بالصُّورةِ الشِّعريَّةِ وتقنياتِ الشَّکلِ، وبِلُغةِ النَّصِّ الشِّعريِّ بوجهٍ عَامٍّ، وقد احتفظ عنصرُ الموسيقى بمکانةٍ خاصَّةٍ ومُتمَيِّزةٍ طوال عصورِ الشِّعرِ العربي المختلف…

• ABDÜLKERİM SÜLEYMANOĞLU

Kentsel rekreasyon alanlarının peyzaj uygulamalarında kullanılan süs bitkileri çeşitli fonksiyonel ve estetik özelliklere sahiptir. Yenilebilir süs bitkileri ise estetik değerin yanı sıra gıda değeri de taşıyan süs bitkileridir. Bu çalışma, kentsel rekreasyon alanlarında yenilebilir odunsu süs bitkilerinin kullanımını…

• ÖZGÜR KAHRAMAN